re: Everytime I drive back to Louisiana from vacation, I have the sadz….

You forgot fattest and crime ridden

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LA is an absolute dump

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Try going to some poverty stricken country in South America, Bosnia, or the Middle East.

I know how you feel. We are trying to get away, too

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and see all the plants and run down scenery

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This is the one thing that I tend to notice the most. There are 4 other states that have the same amount of pollution from chemical plants that Louisiana. Texas, Illinois, Indiana and Ohio and three that are worst. Nevada, Utah and Alaska. But living along the Mississippi River from I guess.. New roads - St Francisville to the mouth of the Mississippi. The amount of plants that are built along that stretch is something that should concern us more than it should.

But on the other hand we need those plants. If we wake up tomorrow and all of the chemical plants in the state just disappeared that would crush the state. Im not just talking about the jobs in those plants, but the amount of jobs that those plants create. Engineering companies, companies that provide specialty pipe fittings, equipment rental companies, the sub contractors that work in the plants.

Hell, my parrain used to own half of a business in which they rented port o potties to contractors working in plants. He sold his half years ago and it was more of a side job than anything and I don't know if they still rent port o potties, but plants keep a lot of businesses in business. There are smaller restaurants close to the plants in which 75-80% of their business comes from plants.

Im talking out of my arse, but my point is the most valuable thing to this state's economy also has a huge negative impact on health.. But I guess its no different than states in which coal mining is a large part of its economy.

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what now

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Exactly what I wrote you stupid shite. Fly into NOLA in July from somewhere like Denver and you’d think you landed in a third world country. Especially at the old terminal. The humidity and smell that greets you is depressing. I doubt it’s less noticeable even with the “new” terminal.

I’m glad we don’t have them in lafayette

It’s how I feel when I’m going north on 59. The landscape gets hillier the further away we get from Louisiana and then when coming back it just gets progressively uglier.

I don’t know what it is about the north shore but I rather live on the Mississippi gulf coast.

I would rather live here than Panama City. Get a way from the beach and you run smack into all those Florida people you're always reading about. No thanks.

Florida is pretty shitty if you get more than 5 miles away from the coast.